κλῆρος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=κλήρου, ὁ, from [[Homer]] [[down]]; the Sept. [[mostly]] for גּורָל and נַחֲלָה; a [[lot]]; i. e.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> an [[object]] used in casting or [[drawing]] lots, [[which]] [[was]] [[either]] a [[pebble]], or a [[potsherd]], or a [[bit]] of [[wood]] ([[hence]], [[κλῆρος]] is to be [[derived]] from [[κλάω]] (cf. Ellicott on βάλλοντες κλῆρον, [[Homer]], Iliad 3,316, 325; 7,175, etc.; Livy 23,3 ([[but]] cf. B. D. American edition, [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC:Lots, Casting of> Lot)); [[hence]], ὁ [[κλῆρος]] πίπτει [[ἐπί]] τινα, [[what]] is obtained by [[lot]], [[allotted]] [[portion]]: λαγχάνειν and λαμβάνειν [[τόν]] κλῆρον τῆς διακονίας, a prrtion in the [[ministry]] [[common]] to the apostles, R G; ἐστι μοι [[κλῆρος]] ἐν τίνι, dative of the [[thing]], [[κληρονομία]] ([[which]] [[see]]) it is used of the [[part]] [[which]] [[one]] [[will]] [[have]] in [[eternal]] [[salvation]], λαμβάνειν ... [[τόν]] κλῆρον ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις, [[among]] the sanctified, [[κλῆρος]] [[τῶν]] ἁγίων, i. e. the [[eternal]] [[salvation]] [[which]] God has assigned to the saints, Lightfoot). of persons, οἱ κλῆροι, those whose [[care]] and [[oversight]] has been assigned to [[one]] ([[allotted]] [[charge]]), used of Christian churches, the [[administration]] of [[which]] falls to the [[lot]] of the presbyters: [[Sophocles]] Lexicon, [[under]] the [[word]]; cf. Lightfoot on Philippians, p. 246f).